it's a swell of a life.

Hey guys! I just got back from a day trip up to our cabin in the mountains with my mom. We left our computer there last weekend when we were up there with family watching this.

We woke up early and made some thrift store stops in Payson, grabbed the computer, then hit every single antique shop/thrift store in Pine. I got some pretty great gems. 

I love small town thrift stores. The prices are awesome and it seems like there's less competition for the good stuff ;)

It's been fun to get back into thrifting--i was pretty hardcore in jr high and high school (remember i even found my wedding dress for $3 at an estate sale?) and then i faded out for a while, but this month--it's becoming an obsession. 

My new traveling goal is going to be, that I always hit up at least one local thrift shop when in another town or state. Nothing like a one-of-a-kind souvenir, right?

What's the best thing you've ever scored at a thrift store/estate sale/antique shop?

<<what i wore>>
boater hat//free people (similar here and here)
statement necklace//c.o. persunmall(buy here)
on the mark necklace//stella & dot (buy here)
initial necklace//(similar here)
elephant muscle tank and striped pencil skirt//c.o. swell (skirt here)
time sawyer//arvowear (splurge here)
tooled leather purse//vintage (similar here)
clogs//american eagle (buy here --buy one get one 50% off right now)

scenes from the weekend.

The black paper bats made a comeback. (just cut out of paper and tape on wall)

the girls from @mintdecor and @themodboho took over my house to shoot some of the pretties they have in their shops!

i forsook my hermit ways and went to dessert with an instafriend turned real life friend Sarah! (and she introduced me to some really great music I'll be sharing tomorrow)

more gorgeous pillows from themodboho--i seriously want that lumbar to live in my house with me!!!

Poppy wondering why there are so many new people in our house, we never have visitors!

picked up that pretty runner from the thrift store for $1 :)

and i leave you with the sexiest scenes of them all, husband doing house projects!

What did you do this weekend?

{For Fashion's Sake} Saturday: Yeah.

Pirate-Hippies are so in right now, right?

Ya, well, just you wait, it will soon be sweeping the nation, and you can say you saw it first here.

Ground breaking stuff over here--ground breaking.

outfit details:

headscarf: j.crew sale $7

yellow earrings: forever21 $4

blouse: thrifted/vintage $3

white cropped denim: gap $30

andy warhol bag: ross $24

sandals: old navy $19

*Don't forget to enter this $75 shabby apple giveaway!

{For Fashion's Sake} Saturday: Panama Baby

There was that one time that I dropped my camera and broke my 50mm lens, so half the time my photos come out like this--which is kind of cool in a artsy sort of way, but now in a i'm glad i dropped my camera and broke my favorite lens sort of way...

 i'll try and stop crying over it soon. until then, here's a outfit i wore. I got this shirt from a thrift store many years ago and only wore it once. i just dug it up, put it on, thought marcus would hate it, but instead he loved it. that boy...always surprising me.

the breakdown:

panama shirt: thrifted

vintage belt: thrifted

skinnies: gapkids

sandals: old navy sale

turquoise ring: new mexico roadtrip bounty

Anything fun planned for the weekend?

i'm headed to a photography lighting workshop with apple&arrow.

{For Fashion's Sake} Saturday: Girls vs. Boys

when i found this gem of a jumpsuit on the goodwill earlier this week it had massive shoulder pads and a large white bib or sorts in the chest area, but those little tricksters couldn't fool me. I saw this polka-doted pleasantry for the prize it was. and when i realized it was $1 because of Dollar Day, there was no question about whether this would be mine.

i came home, ripped the shoulder pads out, unhooked the bib, stitched the neckline a little higher, rolled the sleeves, and added a belt.

and voilà! i had myself a precious little number that marcus said,"...still seems a totally 80s."--sometimes boys just can't see the vision.

i guess i'll wear it for girls luncheons instead of date nights.

Do you notice that there are certain outfits you wear when you want to look cute around your girlfriends vs. your husband/boyfriend/guy friends?

the breakdown:

jumpsuit: vintage via goodwill dollar day

necklaces: stella & dot & nordstroms

belt: jcrew (old)

heels: seychelles (old)